November 14, 2003

People and events in the news at Loyola

In an investiture ceremony in October, three professors were recognized and congratulated for their dedicated service to the Loyola community. Pictures are: Provost and Academic Vice President Walter Harris; Miguel P. Caldas, Ph.D., invested as the Gerald N. Gaston Eminent Scholar Chair in International Business; Alfred Lawrence Lorenz, Ph.D., invested as the A. Louis Read Distinguished Professor in Communications; David M. Myers, Ph.D., invested as the Rev. Aloysius B. Goodspeed, S.J., BEGGARS Distinguished Professor in Communications; Business Dean Patrick O' Brien; and Music Dean Edward Kvet.

Wole Soyinka, a Nigerian playwright and Nobel Prize laureate, talks with drama students before giving a general address on November 5. In 1986, Soyinka became the first African writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In his prolific and rich body of work, which includes plays, novels, poems, and essays, Soyinka draws on both Yoruba and western culture to weave a subtle understanding of the tragedy and comedy of the human condition. In 1960, the playwright founded the Masks, a theatre company that would present his first major play, A Dance of the Forests. Soyinka wrote Camwood on the Leaves, which recently ran in the Lower Depths Theatre.